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The Water-hyacinth A Time-clock
1936(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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The water-clock of the drummers
1974Being the water-clock of the drummers from which can be told the passage of the solar hours; it is divided into 5 sections.
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The water clock of the peacocks
1974The water-clock of the peacocks, from which can be told the passage of the constant hours; it is divided into 6 ...
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Water-clocks and time measurement in classical antiquity
Endeavour, 1979Abstract The water-clock was the first mechanical device for time measurement to be used by the Greeks. Previously they had relied on sundials, or observation of the phases of the moon or the position of the sun in the zodiac to locate points of time within the day, month or year; and by the mid-fifth century BC they had made some progress with the ...
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Second Millennium Babylonian Water Clocks: a physical study
Centaurus, 2000Ce texte s'attache a expliquer et a donner une interpretation des ecrits de Babylone et apporte une suggestion quant a la signification des chiffres rattaches a l'usage de l'horloge a eau.
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Towards Water-Soluble Peroxyl Radial Clocks
2010Peroxyesters undergo homolytic O-O bond cleavage under thermal and photolytic conditions, forming an alkoxyl and acyloxyl radical, the latter of which rapidly decarboxylates to form a carbon centered radical. While peroxyesters are generally decomposed under anaerobic conditions to serve as sources of carbon-centered radicals to initiate radical ...
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